Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb The book focuses on a number of cognitive biases and how people tend to assign explanations to the products of random processes. It draws examples from the financial world where Taleb worked for many years, although many concepts could be generalized to other areas. The World is Flat […]
Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland Excellent look at the slow decline of the Roman Republic and the people in the upper echelon who brought this about. The roles of all the major players from Sulla to Cicero are discussed in detail. It would seem that in 2000 years, […]
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable By Nassim Nicholas Taleb A brilliant book dealing with several cognitive biases and our understanding of risk. Many interesting ideas are explored within and they raise even more questions. I think I’ll do a dedicated post on this later. Baudolino By Umberto Eco This book was […]
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho This book has come with very high recommendations from several people I’ve met while travelling. Earlier this year I heard that a big-budget movie was being developed based on the book and knowing Hollywood’s terrible track record for movie adaptations, I definitely wanted to read the book before any movie […]
I’ve compiled some short reviews of the books I’ve read recently. Adventure Capitalist by Jim Rogers (http://www.jimrogers.com) Good book chronicling one of the world’s longest road-trips by famed investor Jim Rogers at the turn of the millennium. While overall a great read, some countries are only briefly mentioned and he could have added more discussion […]